Former Orleans Parish Bond Clerk Lear Enclarde Pleads Guilty

Lear Enclarde, age 68, a resident of New Orleans, pled guilty today to conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud in a one-count bill of information, announced U.S. Attorney Dana Boente.

According to court documents, Enclarde, who worked in the Orleans Parish Criminal Clerk’s Office from 1973 through 2010, accepted cash and things of value from an unlicensed bail bondsman in exchange for her permitting the unlicensed bondsman to use the name of another, licensed bondsman and to forge that licensed bondsman’s signature on official court documents.

Upon sentencing, which is scheduled for September 17, 2013, Enclarde faces a maximum term of imprisonment of five years, a fine of $250,000, and three years of supervised release following any term of imprisonment.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New Orleans Police Department, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office, and the United States Attorney’s Office.